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Now this is a show! I got Peter Moore, I got a preview of the first RTS for the Xbox 360, I got a review of the Nintendo DS, I got an interview with the godfather of RTS, Louis Castle, I got you a detailed overview of Microsoft Game Studios in Seattle ... I got a lot. Enough with the talk, on with the show!

Gaming Steve Episode 56 Program

00:03:15 Game News:

Dungeons & Dragons Online goes solo.

Wii price and date to be announced ... by September.

EVE Online invades China big time.

Dragon's Lair goes HD.

Blizzard making everything into an MMO?

DS Lite sells 136k in first two days.

Tim Schafer demands 360-compatible Psychonauts.

Spore spreads to mobile phones (again).

Lara Croft is coming back.

Microsoft is working on a handheld ... what exactly?

00:31:54 Interview: Peter Moore, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Interactive Entertainment Business in the Entertainment and Devices Division. Oh yeah, and he also runs something called the Xbox 360.

01:07:36 Game Preview: The Battle for Middle Earth II for the Xbox 360.

01:22:56 Interview: Louis Castle, Vice President of Creative Development for Electronic Arts and the creator of such classics as Dune II and Command & Conquer.

01:34:56 Review: Nintendo DS Lite.

01:41:25 “Name That Game!” contest winner from last week, a new clip, and the always cool prize!

I know this has been said before but this is truely the best games podcast on the net.

I noticed in Steve's "Reasons the Xbox failed in Japan" he mentioned the duke controller. The fact is that the duke was never released in Japan, Microsoft anticipated the Japanese reaction to such a large controller and created the S, the rest of the world saw the S controller and cried, "me too!". And the rest is history.

As some of you know, I am on a slow internet connection. So, instead of waiting for the podcast to download, I was hoping someone would tell me... Please say that Diablo 3 isn't going to be an MMO, that what Steve means is that there is 128 player compatibility on Battle Net, and you can still play it single player or over a LAN. Or at least that Blizzard hasn't finalized their plans to make it into an MMO so I can still hold out hope... Or that I took that "Blizzard making everything into an MMO?" out of context... Please...

Just a tip for downloading podcasts. If you're using iTunes to download them, and you would like to listen to them as they download, I found VLC Media Player to be great for doing this. It updates the length of the MP3 while you download it. Just load up the MP3 in progress from your My Music folder.This way you wont have to worry if your internet connection is slow, I know it takes long enough on my 512k.